Usamljena Devojke Quotes & Sayings

An Irish surgeon, Denis Burkitt, discovered an aggressive form of lymphoma - now called Burkitt's lymphoma - — Siddhartha Mukherjee

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people. — Max Cannon

The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists. — Porter Goss

The darkness lives in everyone. She knew this better than anyone. Everyone had two faces, and she looked deep into us until she found it. — Megan Miranda

All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro. — Victoria Wood

You gotta learn how to take a compliment, because I'm not going to stop making them. — Claudia Gray

The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre. — Tablo

What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell. — David Mitchell

There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke. — William Ralph Inge

California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America. — Hinton Rowan Helper

I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The thank-you thing had been drummed into us intensely when we were growing up. We had three great-aunts, on my mother's side, who believed that when they dropped a present in the mail, your thank-you note should essentially bounce right back out of the mailbox at them. If it didn't, the whole family, cousins and second cousins and all, knew about your lack of gratitude (and, come to think of it, common sense, as the threat was always that no more presents would be forthcoming, ever), and you heard about it from multiple sources. The notes couldn't be perfunctory, either - you had to put real elbow grease into them, writing something specific and convincing about each gift. So Christmas afternoon meant laboring over thank-you notes. As children, we hated this task, but when I saw Mom beam as she thanked people in the hospital, I realized something she had been trying to tell us all along. That there's great joy in thanking. — Will Schwalbe

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle. — Che Guevara

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue. — Aristotle.

Beautiful and familiar objects can help us to feel better. Photos of family and friends, which remind us of the people we love and who love us, are important mood-lifters. Items that inspire us or encourage periods of reflection do the same. — Liz Miller